Hamas’s Made-Up Casualty Figures
Statistical analysis points to sheer fabrication.
March 11, 2024
Hamas’s Made-Up Casualty Figures
Statistical analysis points to sheer fabrication.
Some of the skepticism about the casualty figures Hamas proffers—credulously accepted by the United Nations and parroted by international media—stems from the impossibility of getting such figures so quickly amid an ongoing war. But Abraham Wyner, a professor of statistics and data science, shows through mathematical analysis that the numbers themselves suggest fabrication:
March 11, 2024
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